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During the first full week of May, a barrage of large solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) launched clouds of charged particles and magnetic fields toward Earth, creating the strongest solar storm to reach Earth in two decades — and possibly one of the strongest displays of auroras on record in the past 500 years.
The solar storms of May 2024 were a series of powerful solar storms with extreme solar flares and geomagnetic storm components that occurred from 10–13 May 2024 during solar cycle 25.
May 10, 2024 · Planet Earth is getting rocked by the biggest solar storm in decades – and the potential effects have those people in charge of power grids, communications systems and satellites on edge.
1 day ago · Last 24 hours: Two M flares brings today’s sun activity to moderate. Over the past day, between 11 UTC yesterday and 11 UTC today, the sun produced 15 flares: two M and 13 C flares. The largest ...
May 10, 2024 · A dramatic blast from the sun set off the highest-level geomagnetic storm in Earth’s atmosphere on Friday that is expected to make the northern lights visible as far south as Florida and Southern...
May 11, 2024 · Last weekend, the biggest solar storm to hit Earth in over 20 years swept over our planet as the Sun’s activity ramps up to the peak of its current solar cycle. The storm created beautiful auroras, causing skies to sparkle and dance at much lower latitudes than usual.
May 14, 2024 · NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the two solar flares on May 13 and May 14, 2024. The flares are classified as X1.7 and X1.2-class flares, respectively. The image shows a subset of extreme ultraviolet light that highlights the extremely hot material in flares created from a mixture of SDO’s AIA171 and 131 channels.
Jul 3, 2024 · The Sun is extremely active right now, blasting the Earth with the biggest solar storms in 20 years. This is what it is doing to the rest of the Solar System. If you happened to look skywards on a ...
May 11, 2024 · Large areas of the United States, Europe, and other locations unaccustomed to displays of the aurora borealis saw vivid lights as energetically charged particles from the solar storm passed...
Mar 26, 2024 · Early on Saturday 23 March 2024, the Sun released a strong X1.1 solar flare, the most powerful possible type, from a particularly active region pointing directly towards Earth. The news of an associated coronal mass ejection (CME), heading right at us, put aurora-chasers and space weather scientists alike on high alert.
